Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5625 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin
| Message 25 of 131 31 December 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
I am going to try Portuguese in February because I will be studying for a big final and I
don't want much distraction. Portuguese is easy because it's so similar to Spanish, and
with Brazil so close it would be a shame not to speak it. And for the rest, I kinda want
to give another shot to French, and I have some German material lying around the house
that I bought and never used... But German doesn't enthusiast me much, so yeah. And for
the last one, I completely don't know, I'll guess I'll just pick a random one and see how
I do.
Edited by Carisma on 31 December 2011 at 12:10am
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 26 of 131 31 December 2011 at 5:01am | IP Logged |
I will either be very boring and do Russian on all four, or I'll plan this according to my travel plans (and hopes) and do
- Greek in February,( I would love to go to Greece in May)
- Icelandic in May, (planning to go to Island in July)
- Slovak in August (will be going to Prague for a weekend in the fall, and Slovak is close enough
- and absolutely no idea what I'll do for Nowember :-)
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sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5885 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 27 of 131 31 December 2011 at 6:46pm | IP Logged |
The 4 languages I have tentatively planned for this year's 6WCs, and this will be my first year doing them, are...
French - Spent a few months on French a year and a half ago. No work on it since, and because nothing was really solidified, it's atrophied pretty badly.
Italian - No work except for a few times reading and listening to the first few chapters of Teach Yourself Italian.
Mandarin - Nothing, besides knowing the basic way of saying hello and what I know of Chinese characters through studying the Kanji for Japanese.
Korean - Spent the month of November on it. Learned the Hangul pretty well and I know the basic phrases and grammar but not much else.
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Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6952 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 28 of 131 03 January 2012 at 10:55am | IP Logged |
I've been planning for a while to do Esperanto in February. After that, I can't say. I probably won't be participating in all of the challenges, because I don't like to
give in to wanderlust and interrupt my studies to start a new language every few months; rather, if there's a new language I decide to start anyway, I try to time it to
coincide with the start of a 6WC.
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lmo Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4770 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Sinhalese*, English, Italian, French
| Message 29 of 131 03 January 2012 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
I had some good advice from Christin. That is one language at a time is a better option. Once you are very comfortable with it you start the next.
At present I am doing French and I am very happy with it's progress so I'm off to France in March for finishing touches with my French. In May I will be starting my Spanish lessons.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 30 of 131 03 January 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
Looks like quite a few people are intending to tackle Esperanto this year, that's
awesome! Let me know if I can help. You could even make it an Accelerated Challenge like
our Finnish one...
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hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5352 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian
| Message 31 of 131 03 January 2012 at 3:57pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
- Slovak in August (will be going to Prague for a weekend in the fall, and Slovak is close enough
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Why Slovak and not Czech?
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 32 of 131 03 January 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
hribecek wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
- Slovak in August (will be going to Prague for a weekend in the fall, and Slovak is
close enough
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Why Slovak and not Czech? |
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Maybe because http://www.slovake.eu is an awesome language resource...
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